On a canal boat, you can "step back in time to a slower era", said Paul Miles in The Telegraph. There are over 5,000 miles of ...

Travel experts at The Telegraph consulted the Inland Waterways Association and the Canal & River Trust for seven of the best ...

In the age before mechanisation, a frenzy of canal-building saw a new army of workers carve out the British landscape, digging out hundreds of miles of waterways using picks, shovels and muscle.